The Regulation Resource

For educators supporting mental health and well-being in students, colleagues, parents/caregivers and themselves through trauma sensitive practices.
March 19, 2024| Issue 6
Well-being for All
CARER Framework

Featured: Responsibility and Repair
Many schools list Responsibility as one of their school-wide core values. The belief is that students should demonstrate responsibility by engaging in learning and behavior that fits with expectations. Best practices in well-being and trauma informed care encourage us to use compassion and empathy. And some may struggle to reconcile the two, viewing holding a student to a standard of responsibility at odds with compassion and empathy. I disagree. In fact, I think responsibility is a trauma informed practice. This key is in the pathway we take to achieve it. The chart below depicts a process by which responsibility is achieved through empathy and compassion.
Consequences with Empathy
When a student acts in a way that is not in line with expectations, a consequence is often imposed. Consider the intended outcome of the consequence. Is the consequence truly intended to teach responsibility and repair harm or is it simply to punish?
Punishment
  • to assert power and control
  • to render student powerless
  • to evoke feelings of shame (I am bad)
  • for the benefit of the adult
  • focused on the rule that was broken
  • involving exclusion and isolation
  • enforced with animosity or apathy
  • unconnected to the offence
  • using the adult version of the problem as the only story
Responsibility and Repair
  • to teach
  • to empower student with choice and opportunity for repair
  • to reflect on feelings of guilt (I did something bad)
  • for the benefit of the student
  • focused on the relationship that was harmed
  • involves inclusion
  • enforced with empathy
  • logical, connected the behavior and designed to repair.
  • using the student version of the problem with acceptance that this is their truth
Click below to download resources to support responsibility and repair for the students and adults at your school!
Upcoming Events
Stress and Trauma in Education:
Virtual Community of Practice
(ECE- K12)
Come and join this drop-in community of practice group. We will discuss current effective strategies and practices to support mental health and well being in students, staff and parents/caregivers through a trauma sensitive lens. Have an opportunity to network with other educators who are doing this work. Please bring resources to share, discussion topics, questions and challenges to this informal virtual group.

Register here:

8:30-9:30 a.m. CDT
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Well-being For All Certification (K-12)

Well-being for All is a curriculum that supports both educators and students to improve their mental-health and well-being using a trauma informed and inclusive perspective. Become a certified trainer and get the tools that you need to lead well-being work at your school! Register below or Contact us to bring training to you.

April 22, 23, 29 & 30 8:30-3:30 CST
McFarland School District
or

May 6th - 9th, 2024 8:30-3:30 p.m. CST 
Ingleside Hotel - Pewaukee, WI


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July 15th -18th , 2024 8:30-3:30 p.m. CST
Verona High School - Verona, WI

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Well-being For All Certification (ECE)
Well-being for All is a curriculum that supports Early Childhood Educators to support educators, children and parents in their mental health and well-being using a trauma informed and inclusive perspective. Become a certified trainer and get the tools that you need to lead well-being work at your school! Register below or Contact us to bring this training to you. 

May 31 8:30-3:30 (in person)
June 1 8:30-3:30 (in-person)
June 3, 5 & 7 4:00-7:30 pm (virtual)

Ingleside Hotel -Pewaukee, WI

Register now and receive 50% off using code: WFA50
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Customized training upon request
Service Spotlight

Daniel Educational Services is proud to be part of developing training on Well-being for Early Childhood Educators and the children in their care. Training has been developed in Spanish in collaboration with Diana Billstrom and Yimma Davila Castro. It is designed to be delivered in a peer to peer format. In the pilot phase, the curriculum was informed and refined based on the feedback of 22 Spanish speaking educators with an eye towards cultural and linguistic relevance.

We have now launched phase two in which 6 of the pilot participants have become certified trainers!

They will go on to train other educators with the support of the phase one senior trainers, an ongoing community of practice group and mental health consultation as needed.

Please register here with Bay View Community Center to indicate your interest in being trained or joining our waitlist.
We are grateful to all of our "Colaboradores",
Daniel Educational Services is excited to welcome Diana Billstrom and Yimma Davila Castro as ongoing training partners.

See bios here:
Stay tuned for more Spanish and bi-lingual training options and please contact us if you have opportunities and needs for Spanish language content.
Daniel Educational Services